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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.
The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work
When all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.
Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.
I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.
Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.
My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.
They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.
I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.
Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love
Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.
I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.